World of Warcraft 7.3 Patch Notes - Shadows of Argus

Official World of Warcraft 7.3 Patch Notes are here! Patch 7.3 goes live August 29th and you can learn more about the patch on our Patch 7.3 Argus Content Hub.

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World of Warcraft Patch 7.3

New Features

Argus

Following recent events in the Broken Isles, a link has been created between Azeroth and Kil'jaeden's homeworld of Argus, bringing the Burning Legion closer than ever to destroying Azeroth. In order to stop them once and for all, Illidan and Velen are taking the war directly to the surface of Argus, where they hope to join forces with Alleria, Turalyon, and the Army of the Light to launch an all-out assault on the Legion's primary base of operations.Board the Vindicaar, a vessel that will serve as your mobile base of operations on Argus, as well as one of your few safe havens on the planet.As you explore Argus, you'll visit new locations across the planet, experiencing the epic conclusion to the Legion storyline and unlocking new world quests and other content along the way.

Azeroth isn't the only world connected to this hostile place. While on Argus, you'll unlock the ability to enter the very portals the Burning Legion use to transport to other worlds. Once there, complete an event or defeat a boss to earn epic rewards.

Once the heart of the ancient eredar civilization where Velen, Archimonde, and Kil'jaeden ruled their people, this temple has fallen to ruin. Return with Velen to retrieve an ancient relic of power, and battle the darkness that has overtaken this sacred place, in a new 5-person dungeon among the ruins of Mac'Aree on Argus, featuring four bosses:

Zuraal the Ascended

Zuraal represents the Shadowguard's first success at creating a Void-infused Broken whose mind has not fallen into madness. A renowned brawler in his past life, Zuraal uses his newfound dark strength to empower his attacks and decimate his foes.

Saprish

The ever-tactical Saprish deploys the forces of the Shadowguard with calculated precision. Though a skilled commander and strategist, Saprish relishes taking a direct hand in battle. He turns his foes' weaknesses against them, leaving his vulnerable adversaries at the mercy of his voracious pets.

Viceroy Nezhar

Like others of his ilk, Viceroy Nezhar is obsessed with harnessing the power of the Void to serve his own ambitions. Drawn to the Seat of the Triumvirate by the immense darkness emanating from deep within, Nezhar will stop at nothing to claim it for his own. Given the viceroy's experiments at infusing vessels with the power of shadow, the implications of what he might accomplish on Argus are dire indeed.

L'ura

When Velen and his followers fled Argus aboard the Genedar, the naaru L'ura stayed behind to buy the draenei time to escape. Kil'jaeden, enraged by this betrayal, ordered the wounded naaru sealed away in the Seat of the Triumvirate. Over the long millennia that passed, L'ura fell from Light to Void. Her elegant song of courage and hope became a shadowy dirge of despair, luring those seeking to lay claim to her power.

Updated Features

Argus World Quests

As you progress through each of the areas to explore on Argus, you'll unlock new World Quests and new Emissaries eager for your help.

Artifact Customization

Harness the power of Argus to activate the Netherlight Crucible aboard the Vindicaar, allowing you to augment your Artifact Relics. The Crucible can be used to strengthen and customize Relics, increasing their raw power and allowing players to choose from a set of additional powers, including a second Artifact Trait to improve.

Combat Animations

New and updated animations, effects, and audio are coming to all three Mage specs, all three Priest specs, and Elemental and Restoration Shamans. Restoration Druids have updated animations.

Class Halls, Champions, and Missions

Your Class Hall and its assorted Champions played key roles in the defense of Azeroth, and their keen efforts are needed to succeed with the new challenges of Argus. You'll find dozens of new missions, along with new Troop types, and an increase in your Champions' item level to 950.

Dungeons

Loot dropped in Normal, Heroic, and Mythic dungeons is now increased in power by 20 item levels:

Normal: item level 845

Heroic: item level 865

Mythic: item level 885

Mythic Keystone rewards scale up to a maximum of item level 915 in the dungeon, and item level 935 in the weekly chest, both capped at Mythic Keystone 10. This cap in will increase to Mythic Keystone 15 at a future date.The difficulty of Heroic and Mythic dungeons has increased to reflect the improved rewards. Normal dungeon difficulty is unchanged.

Pet Battles

Venture through the raids of Cataclysm to find new battle pets for the much-anticipated achievement, Raiding with Leashes V: Cuteaclysm. You'll boast about finding a host of mostly elemental pets when you revisit Blackwing Descent, Bastion of Twilight, Throne of the Four Winds, Firelands, and Dragon Soul.Advance scouts have reported spotting 18 legendary boss pets scattered about Argus, and these miniature monstrosities have otherworldly special abilities that the denizens of Azeroth have never seen before, such as the slightly terrifying Greater Apocalypse ability. Additionally, more than a dozen different capturable wild pets are said to be found on Argus, as well as a number of pets that can only be obtained via reward items and the new Family Fighter achievement.

Classes

The synergy between Hungering Rune Weapon and Breath of Sindragosa has dominated the spec, leaving little room for variety. We're adjusting this combo, and overall damage has increased to compensate. The result should be a more competitive talent picture. All three level 100 talents are tweaked for balance and to play more smoothly. Hungering Rune Weapon should still be hectic to use and require planning, but should not drastically overcap resources anymore.

FeralFeral's updates are focused on addressing two issues with the spec: reducing the dominance of complexifying talents such as Savage Roar, Jagged Wounds, and Bloodtalons, and reducing the damage gap between learning the spec and playing it perfectly. Feral has traditionally been a high skill-cap spec, and we have no intention of changing that, but this suite of updates should make the spec more approachable and less punishing for those still learning its nuances.

Savage Roar is generally maintained at full uptime, so the “deals increased damage for their full duration” on it provided no gameplay, only added complication. In comparison, Tiger's Fury and Bloodtalons still provide interesting gameplay due to their limited nature.

Savage Roar now increases the damage of Feral damage over time effects dynamically, based on whether Savage Roar is active or inactive at the time of dealing damage. Previously, Feral damage over time abilities dealt a set amount of total damage over their full duration based on whether Savage Roar was active or not when the damage over time abilities were cast. Tiger's Fury and Bloodtalons functionality remains unchanged.

Developers' note: This is a bugfix to Blessing of Sacrifice to eliminate the issue with it reducing you to below the listed health amount, and even occasionally killing you. It should now be safe to rely on it to perform as expected.

RetributionTraits and legendaries that buff Crusade should still be attractive, but not as far ahead of the pack as they previously were.

ProtectionThere should now be much less DPS and survivability swing between Seraphim and non-Seraphim builds. Non-Seraphim builds now do better damage, and Seraphim builds do not sacrifice as much defense as they previously did.

All research durations for changing a bonus have been reduced 1 day (was 3 days).

The cost to change the Tier 7 research bonus has been increased to 5,000 Order Resources (was 2,000).

Companion App

Added support for Argus world quests and missions.

Dungeons

Players can no longer swap equipment in Mythic Keystone dungeons while under the effect of the Bursting or Grievous damage-over-time effects.

Items

Attack Power has been removed from all player gear and replaced with Strength or Agility, except in cases where those stats would be inappropriate (such as guns).

Many holiday-themed items now have substantially-reduced cooldowns when their associated holidays are active.

Many legacy class set items that did not have a sell price now have a sell price.

Contributing to a building on the Broken Shore no longer awards a Legionfall Recompense item, and the Artifact Power value of the Artifact Power token awarded has been reduced.

Artifact Power items no longer have a sale price, as they should always be useable.

Artifacts

Hidden Appearances – You are no longer required to be using your current specialization's Hidden Artifact Appearance to gain progress towards unlocking its 3 color variants. You can now gain progress towards unlocking the 3 color variants of your Artifact's Hidden Appearances set while you are in any spec and using any Artifact appearance.

Challenge Appearances – You are no longer required to be using your current specialization's Challenge Artifact Appearance to gain progress towards unlocking its 3 color variants. You can now gain progress towards unlocking the 3 color variants of your Artifact's Challenge Appearances set while you are in any spec and using any Artifact appearance, as long as you have unlocked the base challenge appearance for a given spec.

The Appearance requirement “Defeat all Legion dungeons” has been changed to “Complete 10 different Legion dungeons”, and now includes Seat of the Triumvirate.

Comments

Comment by gfz1306

on 2017-08-23T12:20:32-05:00

change the survival hunter tier bonus already! IT*S USELESS

Comment by mathiaslindberg

on 2017-08-23T12:25:15-05:00

The new glyphs are cool, but I have a feeling people aren't going to be happy with the fact that a lot of the new spells haven't had their visual bugs fixed, and there's still a lot of spells left from vanilla. It'd be kinda shocking if they released 7.3 promising caster updates, and didn't do anything for constantly applied spells like Power Word: Shield.

Comment by BlacKYYYEaglE

on 2017-08-23T12:34:31-05:00

Enchanter’s Illusion - Glorious Tyranny is now available to purchase from Prideful Gladiator vendors, for characters who earned Duelist: Season 14 or Duelist: Season 15.

Why only Duelist? As Rival you were able to buy the nice looking enchants and now you don't get them as an Illusion? For what reason....

Comment by Aarkan

on 2017-08-23T12:35:57-05:00

I hope they're drastically reducing the amount of resources each building takes since they're removing the largest incentive to gather and contribute resources.

Comment by Jeimison

on 2017-08-23T12:46:06-05:00

Where are the elite stuff vendors?

Comment by Jawa12

on 2017-08-23T12:56:36-05:00

Heroes of Azeroth, we fought back the deceiver himself and ended his reign. Now the time has come to push the battle to Argus itself. We are on the marge of history, on August 29, the biggest event in 25 years of Warcraft is about to unfold. As the end of the burning legion...has come.﻿

Comment by Chaxton

on 2017-08-23T13:00:04-05:00

"The Porcupine family has been re-named to Porcupine."Aw rats, I thought those pesky vermin would have been renamed to a more pest-like moniker.

Excluding the cheesy pun, your link for the family still says Porcupine, not Rodent.

Comment by HunterFletch

on 2017-08-23T13:00:26-05:00

Some comments about a few things and perhaps they are answered somewhere else..1. Will nethershards be used to buy higher level gear than they currently are?2. Interesting to see Ret Pallys getting a buff and not seeing Arms Warriors getting a nerf.3. If we finish the Legionfall campaign or even the class hall campaign will it count for all toons?

Comment by Funkyo

on 2017-08-23T13:01:33-05:00

Now !@#$in feral gankers will be everywhere and thx Earthquake damage increased by 19% we will do top dps now ffs :S

Comment by TytheMainTainer

on 2017-08-23T13:02:31-05:00

"Artifact Power items no longer have a sale price" well this is an unexpected blow, been vending especially on alts. As the AP race wouldnt really start until end of the expansion burnout.

Comment by JPato01

on 2017-08-23T13:07:45-05:00

The Avoidance stat has been reduced in effectiveness by 27% at all levels.

the what? i didnt even knew that stat still existed

Comment by Jorges

on 2017-08-23T13:26:56-05:00

Crap, I just recently leveld my DK and was starting to maitain 30+ secs breaths... I'm at square one again >_<

Comment by azteh

on 2017-08-23T13:28:00-05:00

The Avoidance stat has been reduced in effectiveness by 27% at all levels.

the what? i didnt even knew that stat still existed

Avoidance/Leech/Speed are the "new" tertiary stats that can be rolled on to an item, just like socket, warforge and titanforge can.

Comment by lexthor

on 2017-08-23T13:33:29-05:00

Can't wait seem new feral cat in action)

Comment by Agentkillerlee

on 2017-08-23T13:40:40-05:00

If you are looking for the PvP Season 4 ending date, its August 29th as well.

Comment by Soeroah

on 2017-08-23T13:44:25-05:00

"Artifact Power items no longer have a sale price, as they should always be useable."

Uuugh.

There's a point where I'd rather take gold over a 0.005% progress boost toward my next trait, and anything below (currently) 16 million AP is an instant-vendor because it's barely worth the time it takes to wait for the GCD on using numerous ones at once.

Comment by Soeroah

on 2017-08-23T13:45:34-05:00

Some comments about a few things and perhaps they are answered somewhere else..1. Will nethershards be used to buy higher level gear than they currently are?2. Interesting to see Ret Pallys getting a buff and not seeing Arms Warriors getting a nerf.3. If we finish the Legionfall campaign or even the class hall campaign will it count for all toons?

Every class has to do the campaign and Legionfall campaign to get their mount questlines open, but the class campaign is no longer required for the third relic slot.

No, no new stuff for Nethershards. Feel free to use them now.

Comment by TwistedPhayte

on 2017-08-23T14:14:50-05:00

Hey Blizz! How about them DH changes so everything doesn't feel like $%^& in a raid?

Blizzard: NEW PLANET! NEW PROFESSIONS!

B-b-but... Maybe even some tuning?

Blizzard: NEW PATCH NEXT WEEK!

A hotfix maybe?

Blizzard: LOWER ODER HALL COSTS ON STUFF! NO MORE THIRD RELIC UNLOCKS!

Maybe even a hope of change in the near future?

Blizzard: Thanks for coming out everyone, have a great night!brb....rerolling again....

Comment by MrKnight

on 2017-08-23T14:17:39-05:00

I have to wonder if this will make Elemental any better DPS wise. Enough to take them from the DPS cellar to around average - I very much doubt it.